Thursday, June 18, 2009

Come see me at the Marin Art Festival July 20-21, 2009

I'll be at the Marin Art Festival this weekend in space #C3. If you have the chance to come up and see me, please do. I'll be heading up tomorrow to bring all my work up there for the show, having lunch, then heading back home, for an early morning trip on Saturday for the show!

Here's the press release:

Jeff Owen will be at the Marin Art Festival with over 200 other artists. The show puts on great food, music, and entertainment with stilt walkers, roving musicians, a lottery drawing. Saturday is “Salsa” day; Sunday is “Swing”. Come on by and enjoy great weather and great art. Come see Jeff Owen’s unique abstract sculptures, at “booth C3”. Jeff Owen will showing his sculptures in the sculpture areas next to the lagoon. For all you romantics… STEEL is the gift of love for your 11th wedding anniversary!

Jeff Owen is known for his unique abstract steel sculptures using found metal. Jeff Owen’s sculptures were selected for the GBK VIP Gift Suite at the 2009 Golden Globes Awards, and won awards locally at Carmel, Palm Springs, and Los Gatos and more recently at Pajaro Valley Art Council, SCULPTURE IS: 2009 IN THE GARDEN, at Sierra Azul Nursery and Garden in Watsonville. His sculptures are displayed in indoor and outdoor corporate and individual collections nationwide and internationally. Jeff Owen's sculptures can also be viewed at the The Museums of Los Gatos Gallery in Los Gatos (24 N Santa Cruz Ave), his home gallery, and online at www.jeffowen.com. Call or email to visit his gallery and see ALL of his sculptures in person! Check out his twitter. http://twitter.com/jeffmonoxide

Jeff Owen describes his art as the past combined into the present, mingling of age, time, and space into congruent single form, the many into one. His technique is brute force, decide-at-the-moment. His creative process emerges with patterns that he incorporates into all of his sculptures. He creates art that is completely unique, something no one has done before. He resists conformity and mass production and that his art is as individual as he is.

Jeff Owen has recently collaborated with glass artist Marc Demian to create metal-glass sculptures. Marc Demian’s intimate knowledge of ceramics as a son of a respected potter, allows him to create unique molds to achieve unusual shapes in glass. Growing up with an artist has given him an adventurous curiosity, mixing glass with clay, metal and wood. Currently, he is exploring textured and patterned glass in high relief. Marc Demian intends his work to be joyful in spirit and sophisticated in rendition. His work can be seen in fine galleries around the country and in private collections around the world. www.demianglass.com